Thomas J. Waite

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Thomas J. Waite is an American author of thrillers and frequently writes about technology and fiction.

Early life

Thomas Waite was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where his father was a dentist and his mother a registered nurse. Waite majored in English Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was selected to participate in an international study program at the University of Oxford. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979. After college, he pursued a marketing career, including ghost-writing for others at firms in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts before publishing under his own name.

Career

Waite worked in marketing for a number of consulting firms including Nolan, Norton & Company (acquired by PwC), McKinsey & Company, and Index Group (acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation) before starting Waite & Company in 1995. Waite & Company was acquired by Zefer Corporation (acquired by NEC) in 1999. He served on the Board of Trustees of Mount Ida College from 2007-2013 and is currently on the Board of Directors of two technology companies

Waite’s first novel, Terminal Value (2012), was a corporate thriller about a technology start-up acquired by a company about to go public and on the eve of their IPO one of the partners is found dead. His second novel, Lethal Code (2014), was his first Lana Elkins thriller and concerned a “cyber-Pearl Harbor” attack by unknown terrorists against the United States.

Trident Code (2015) was the second in Waite’s Lana Elkins thriller series and imagined ruthless cyber hackers seizing a U.S. nuclear submarine equipped with Trident missiles threatening to hit a target that could change the face of the earth. Unholy Code (2016) was a domestic thriller in which a malicious exploit by a cyber-savvy radical white supremacist strikes at the heart of the National Security Agency’s network.

Waite is a member of the International Thriller Writers Association and writes on thrillers, cybersecurity, and cyberwarfare for publications including The Boston Globe and The Daily Beast. He has also written articles on business for the Harvard Business Review and The New York Times.

Bibliography

Novels

• Terminal Value, 2012 ISBN 978-0-985-02580-9 Search this book on .
• Lethal Code, 2014 ISBN 978-1-477-82505-1 Search this book on .
• Trident Code, 2015 ISBN 978-1-477-82840-3 Search this book on .
• Unholy Code, 2016 ISBN 978-1-532-87112-2 Search this book on .

Articles

• "When Cyberthrillers Become Real Life,", The Boston Globe, 2015
• "Knausgaards and Clancys Fight Over Turf," The Daily Beast, 2015
• "What Cli-Fi Can Do To Save The Planet," The Daily Climate, 2015
• "Sci vs. Fi?," SFF World, 2015
• "Keeping to the Fairway," Harvard Business Review, April 2003
• "Stick to the Core - Or Go For More," Harvard Business Review, February 2002
• "Marketing Breakthrough Products," Harvard Business Review, November–December 1999
• "Consulting: Don't Lose It, Improve It," The New York Times, 1998.

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